Carmen

“She struggled to think of anyone besides perhaps James Baldwin and Jesus who had experiences the profound isolation and loenliness she now knew to be the one and only true reality of this world.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“You don't know you're born.

You don't. You don't know you're born”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.”
― Zadie Smith, NW